{"id":319961,"date":"2024-12-16T16:42:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T11:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=319961"},"modified":"2024-12-17T11:41:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T06:11:11","slug":"kerch-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kerch-strait\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerch Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Two Russian oil tankers sustained significant damage during a storm in the Kerch Strait. The damage caused oil to spill and triggered an emergency rescue operation.<\/p>\n<h2>About Kerch Strait<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_319962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-319962\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-319962 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kerch-Strait.png?resize=507%2C262&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Kerch Strait\" width=\"507\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kerch-Strait.png?w=507&amp;ssl=1 507w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kerch-Strait.png?resize=300%2C155&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-319962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source- Jamestown Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a strait in <em>Eastern Europe<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>It <em>connects the Black Sea<\/em> and <em>the Sea of Azov<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>It separates the <em>Kerch Peninsula of Crimea<\/em> in the west from the <em>Taman Peninsula<\/em> of Russia&#8217;s Krasnodar Krai in the east.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Historical significance<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The primary harbor, the Crimean city of Kerch, gives the strait its name.<\/li>\n<li>It was previously known as the Cimmerian Bosporus or the Straits of Taman and has also been referred to as the Straits of Yenikale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Strategic significance<\/strong>&#8211; It is the <em>only direct link between Russia and Crimea<\/em>. It plays a crucial role in supplying fuel, food, and other essential goods to Crimea, which is home to the port of Sevastopol \u2013 the historic base of Russia\u2019s Black Sea Fleet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Two Russian oil tankers sustained significant damage during a storm in the Kerch Strait. The damage caused oil to spill and triggered an emergency rescue operation. About Kerch Strait It is a strait in Eastern Europe. It connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. It separates the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kerch-strait\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kerch Strait<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":319962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,12039,11211],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-319961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Kerch-Strait.png?fit=507%2C262&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}